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-Land of the Free
Telling the awful truth about the new SAT ‘adversity' score
2019-05-17
[American Thinker] Few people have the audacity to speak the truth about the underlying problem with the efforts to engineer "diversity" ‐ which in practice means that blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans receive a share of jobs, college admissions, income, and other products of achievement at least proportional to their share of the population. Fortunately, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has a lot of guts.

Last night, Ms. Mac Donald appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight and discussed the newly-announced "adversity score" adopted by the College Board publishers of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). As explained by the New York Times:
The company announced on Thursday that it will include a new rating, which is widely being referred to as an "adversity score," of between 1 and 100 on students’ test results. An average score is 50, and higher numbers mean more disadvantage. The score will be calculated using 15 factors, including the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s neighborhood.

The rating will not affect students’ test scores, and will be reported only to college dmissions officials as part of a larger package of data on each test taker.

The Wall Street Journal expresses the decision factors in this graphic:

Posted by:Besoeker

#12  ...And the genius behind this was also one of the people who put together Common Core.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-05-17 19:39  

#11  Standards will be lowered so they DON'T flunk out - diminishing those schools. Would you hire an Evergreen College or Berkeley grad? I sure as hell wouldn't
Posted by: Frank G   2019-05-17 18:48  

#10  We already have a problem with kids being given positions in elite schools way above their abilities and then flunking out after a year or two. This will only compound that problem.
Posted by: rschwarz   2019-05-17 14:58  

#9   Stupidly, sending any student into a school more demanding than their abilities is a guarantee of failure, frustration, and a path to dropping out.

I dunno. What about all those kids whose parents bought their way into the top schools like Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and USC? Did they drop out? I've never been so I don't really know but it makes me wonder if the so-called best and brightest who come out of those schools really are the best and brightest. Maybe they're just the children of the elite.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-05-17 14:01  

#8  Someone call me when the NBA and NFL start allowing underprivileged short slow white guys into the league to the limit of their population percentage.
Posted by: Hellfish   2019-05-17 12:53  

#7  Haven't these kids faced enough adversity without sending them to indoctrination camps and burdening them with lifelong debt?
Posted by: Glenmore   2019-05-17 09:55  

#6  a guarantee of failure, frustration, and a path to dropping out.

But the loans will still be due. Until the dems cancel them, anyway...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-05-17 09:52  

#5  Adversity is our strungth.
Posted by: charger   2019-05-17 09:42  

#4  Racial preferences are illegal even if you think your oh-so-clever way around the illegality works. This will be blown up in court or SATs will not be usable
Posted by: Frank G   2019-05-17 08:54  

#3  Of course we recently learned the 'privileged' buy their way in to top schools with at least passing marks to obviously follow.

Everyone must be looked after on "Airstrip One".
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-17 08:41  

#2  Designed to get certain test takers into better schools. Stupidly, sending any student into a school more demanding than their abilities is a guarantee of failure, frustration, and a path to dropping out. Better to match ability to challenge, driving toward success. This is known, but some people prefer to virtue signal with other people’s lives.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-05-17 08:35  

#1  Reparations, one small step at a time.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-17 07:55  

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